Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Tremulous: The best free software game ever?

Linux and open source software lag behind the proprietary market in the number and quality of available video games, especially in the realm of first-person shooters (FPS). Here, Linux is an afterthought, if not ignored completely. Tremulous, a mixture of FPS and RTS (real-time strategy) written by Tim Angus, is an exception to that rule.


Tremulous, besides on the Linux platform, is also for Windows. I've never actually really gotten into playing the game indeph, but from what the description says, it sounds pretty interesting.

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

The Quake mod that it was partially based on, called Gloom, was a lot of fun. I'll have to give Tremulous a try.